New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-04-23
LITERARY NOTES.

NJ UoTells's "ModerD Italian Poets VIII NC
brought out Immediately by the Harpers.
aZurv. the Meanest Man in Spring County is tue
title of the realistic novel which Major Joseph Kirk
land has written aud which Hong hton, MilIn q 90
are about 10 publish IL ueils with 'n0 ''io VI WV
early settlers in Illinois.
4 oolored portrait of the goodlookng author Is to
s,rve as frontispiece to the forthcoming Scrloner
cdtion of Thomas Steyens's book Around the "orld
on a Bicycle.
The nephew of tho late Adam Lindsay Gordon the
Australian poet. writes to The London Standard
.Lo, CorS on was one OF the most careless and I'M
bu.inesslke of men, and this lin spite OF the generous
1hinys which have been said OF his wrlungsl Is
evidenced by many blemish which little care IN
revising Tor publication wouli have saved from oeine
nernetuated. The critic will have no diu Guilty III
nlacing his finger on many line where something oil
the nature OF painfully apparent anticlimax deac'
from the beauty of OF his oes-known verses p'
40 far as they went lin his own view ana words nc
was mo poet, but jngler OF rhymes they were
given faeain borrowing his own expression for Just
what thew are worth, tree gratis for nothing III
seems rather like the irony OF fate. that one OF the
fbnys which distressed GOr0on most ana heiped 10
mi no cnn of misery nc had the fortitude to drink
IN the dregs should have been the consciousness tat
he had not the wheewithal TO pay his pubshets lor
tbe volume OF poems which appeared IN prmt-con
temnoraneously with bis death. Himself the soul OF
honor and prince of good fellows tearing put 'he
shame OF fear he shrans IRON iacins the current o
ilfortune which lie leIt nc MAO hot 'nc s'FcnsVu !"
breast"
Lieutenant James Digby, a British officer who
served in America during the campaigns OF lI|6' Il
LETT an interesting diary OF his experiences during that
ueriod Tue original Ms is in the possession oil D. ~
baxter the editor of the Treawny papers, ana VII!
he edited by him. Joel Munsers Sons, OF Albany WAL
publish 1t.
Max Mullers latest work, The Science of Thought
is to he brought cat here in two volumes 10y CHARLES
-ScTibner's Sons.
Mr. Burners "Story of New-York House Will
int ba IT
Professor Warfelds Introduction to the Textual
Criticism of the New Testament and the Rev. w. H..
Iowe;s Hebrew Grammar will tic the next volumes to
he issued in the Theological Educator SERIES published
by T. Whitaker"
Madame Jane Dieulafoy will present in the June
q aaroern an autheEtic account OF the discoveries
made by her husband in excavating the tumuli at
Sasa The article is to be handsomely illustrated.
The Rev Dr. George F. Pentecost contributes an
article TO the April number Of "The Homiletlc Re
view that will doubtless be widely read and com,
men.ed on. In answering the question, How shall
our cities be elized he arrgns the Christian
Church with great severity, and apparently, with
some show of reason In the upper regions CT New
York" he says, bu ldel together within stones
throw of each other q score or more splendid
Protestant cathedras representing millions oil money
toward which, on Sunday mornings the fashionable
world OF our Gotham wends its way to worship God IL
nurple and fine linen and to thank God That they are
moi as other people poor and compelled TO live on tho
hack streets Seven-tenths OF ALI wealth and th'
aya,able resources. personal and material OF the
Church are lavisaed upon less than tbree-tenths OF
the people and they the favored better classes $50
called. There churches among the denser popu
lations and crowded portions OF the city, but theN
waeing aggressive warfare against sin and misery
md conducting vigorous campaigns against unpeie
and indifference The ratio OF church-going p0puia
ton is steadily decreasing before the advancing td'
of the cty's growth Only one out OF sixteen OF th
population OF London are regular church soers, and
The proportion is still less in New York.
As remedy for all this DR. Pentecost propose
concert of action among the denominations, parocha
divisions the selection OF ADLER ministers for cit.
mission work and a Z" larger conservation OF men an'
means" These reforms however, are so radical tia
their realization ia hardly possible Tor many years t
come il at all, but DR. Penecosts strong presentation
OF them ought TO many easy-gong Christians L